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Of dumplings and hotpots
Six weeks in China have been quite a culinary experience. We weren’t adventurous enough to try things like turtle soup, grilled snakes or skewered scorpions, but we certainly tried a huge variety of Chinese food as we travelled across various provinces – it was amazing how different the flavours were in each area. So, here … Weiterlesen
Caring for the environment – the Chinese way
That’s the sign above many of the ATMs: When will you start recycling your cash?
Surfing Shanghai
We only caught a glimpse of Shanghai during our two-day stopover. The vistas at night strolling down ‚the Bund‘ are fantastic, it’s a huge, modern and very clean city. The shiny scyscrapers are impressive, and if you are into glitzy shopping malls and fancy restaurants, Shanghai offers all that and more. Yet for us, it … Weiterlesen
Stations #25
Shanghai Railway Station
Home on the go
This bakery in Yangshuo seems to have understood it: Home is to be with you.
Booking Chinese Trains for Dummies
China Railways has a pretty good website, the only problem: it is only available in Chinese. After some of our frustrations with Chinese trains like standing tickets, destinations booked out days in advance etc, I got my head around checking Chinese trains on the official website myself (with some help from a friendly Chinese person … Weiterlesen
Taking your bird for a walk
China is not necessarily known for being an animal-loving country. Rather, Chinese people are infamous for putting on their dinner plate whatever moves in nature – a stereotype that we can confirm. If you get an English menu or wander over a Chinese market, you find all sorts of animals you never thought of as … Weiterlesen
Stations #24
Guilin
Electronics from the Golden Computer Arcade
There are a lot of things you can take if you leave for a year, but we left with about 12 to 13 kg in each of our backbacks. We don’t miss much and there are still a few items we would not have needed. I wanted to dedicate a few posts to some of … Weiterlesen
More travel photos
We got some new equipment in Hong Kong (more later) and we caught up sorting through our photos, only keeping the better ones and uploading them to flickr. We’ve spent quite a couple of nights with the photos and thanks to the Internet connection of our lovely host Sisi in Hong Kong we got most … Weiterlesen
Pancakes Hong Kong Style
Sonntagsfrühstück mit (von Julia) selbstgemachten Pfannkuchen und dragon fruit.
From Hong Kong with love
One year ago today, we got engaged. A lot happened this last year: we both quit our jobs, left Israel, celebrated a fantastic wedding, and now we are simply living our longstanding dream. We are almost three months into our travels by now – as they say, time is flying when you are having fun. … Weiterlesen
Stations #23
Taikoo Metro Station, Hong Kong (We took the subway from Shenzen into Hong Kong)
Tiger Leaping Gorge
It took a lot of time and effort to get here: Lijiang, a remote town in the Northwest of the province Yunnan, close to the Tibetan border, tucked between steep mountains. It could have been straightforward: we already had tickets for the direct bus from Chengdu to Lijiang, when a landslide blocked the road, the … Weiterlesen
Stations #22
Lijiang
Stations #21
Kunming
The Unknown City of 32 Million
It’s possibly the municipality with the most inhabitants worldwide and still hardly anybody in ‚the West‘ will have heard about it: Chongqing. There is no denying Chinese could judge this ignorance as Western arrogance. Before talking to the photographer Tim in Beijing, who declared Chongqing to be his favorite city in China, I didn’t know … Weiterlesen
Stations #20
Chongqing (pronounced something like Chong-tshing)
Stations #19
Chengdu railway station, Sichuan province
Rural China
Our next destination after Xian was Xining, the capital of the Qinghai province. It’s located on the Tibetan plateau, and we planned to continue from here through the mountainous scenery along the Tibetan border into the province of Sichuan. But we didn’t take the Chinese government into account… Upon arrival in Xining we were told … Weiterlesen
Stations #18
Xining West (a temporary station built only for 3 years, while they rebuild the main one), Qinghai province
Stations #17
Xian, Shaanxi province
Stations #16
Beijing West Railway Station
The Chinese soldier
When you are travelling, you come across great sights, interesting cities or breathtaking landscapes. But often, it’s the people you meet along the way that really make your day. Since direct trains from Ulanbaatar to Beijing were sold out, we had only bought a ticket to Jining (about half-way between the border and Beijing) in … Weiterlesen
The missing picture
When we started our travels, we each took one book. „Russia“ by Jonathan Dimbleby, a BBC journalist who writes about his travels through Russia, from Murmansk to Vladivostok (highly recommendable, not only on tour through Russia). The other one was a German book called „Fliegen ohne Flügel“ by Tiziano Terzani, a journalist who worked for … Weiterlesen
